Fernando BOTERO (b. 1932)
Education
1955 Studied fresco techniques and art history, Florence, Italy
1952 Studied, San Fernando Academy and the Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain
1950 Graduated from Medellin University
Awards
1960 Guggenheim National Prize, Colombia
Exhibitions
2014 Envisioning Human Rights: The Next Generation, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
2013 Dream Visions: Ernst, Magritte, Dali, Picasso, etc, The Wormland Bequest, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany Fernando Botero: Botero Sutra, Galerie Gmurzynska, St. Moritz, Switzerland Art For Human Rights, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA Fernando Botero: It Is All About Volume, Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich, Switzerland Paintings and Sculptures, Marlborough Monaco, Monte-Carlo, Monaco Solo Show, Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany The Armory Show, New York, USA
2012 Botero, Kunstforum, Vienna Art For Human Rights, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
2011 Avant Première, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore Speaking with Hands: Photographs and Sculptures from the Buhl Collection, Macau Museum of Art, Macau The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, USA
2010 Art is deformation, Solo Exhibition, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY Inaurgural Exhibition: Fernando Botero, Solo Exhibition, David Benrimon Gallery, New York, NY Latinas!, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, Glenbow Museum, Calgary Botero, Pera Museum, Istanbul
2009 El Dolor de Colombia, Pinacoteca Diego Rivero, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, USA
2008 The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
2007 The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, Solo Exhibition, Musée National des Beaux- Arts du Québec Delaware Art Museum, Solo Exhibition, Wilmington, DE New Orleans Museum of Art, Solo Exhibition, New Orleans, LA Latin Masters, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, NY
2005 Palazzo Venezia, Rome, Italy
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2004 Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2003 The Gemeente Museum, Aja The Maillol Museum, Paris, France
2002 Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2001 Moderna Musset, Stockholm, Sweden
2000 The Museum of Antioquìa, Medellìn, Colombia
1999 San Paolo Museum of Art, San Paolo, Brazil The National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil The Monterey Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterey, CA The Art Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
1997 The Modern Art Museum of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland The National Musuum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile
1996 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel The Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC Niigata Prefectoral Modern Art Museum, Niigata, Japan Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, South Korea The Sofia Imber Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas, Venezuela
1995 Museo of Art, Takamatsu City, Japan Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki, Japan
1994 Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland The National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina Paseo de Recolet, Madrid, Spain Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina Paseo de Recoletes, Madrid, Spain Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1992-1993 Montecarlo Kunsthaus, Vienna, Austria Champs-Elysées, Paris, France The Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1991 Exhibition Palace, Rome, Italy
1989 The Coro Museum of the Arts, Coro, Venezuela The Contemporary Museum of Art, Caracas, Venezuela The Rufino Tamayo Museum, Oaxaca, Mexico
1987 The Queen Sofia Center for the Arts, Madrid, Spain
1986 The Contemporary Art Museum, Caracas, Venezuela Municipal Art Museum, Niigata, Japan Museum of Art, Albany, NY
1985 The National Museum, Bogota, Colombia The Ponce Museum, Puerto Rico
1984 The Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY The Everhard Museum, Scranton, PA The Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1983 The Veranneman Foundation, Belgium
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1981 The Civic Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1979 The d’Ixelles Museum, Brussels, Belgium The Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC The South Texas Museum of Art, Corpus Christi, TX
1978 Sculpture Museum of the city of Marl, Marl, Germany
1977 The Medellìn Museum of Art, Medellìn, Colombia
1976 The Museum of Comtemporary Art, Caracas, Venezuela
1975 The Boymans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1972 Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY Buchholz, Munich, Germany Claude Bernard, Paris, France
1970 Fernando Botero: Bilder 1962-1969, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany; Traveled to: Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany; Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany; Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany; and Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany Botero, Galerie Buchholz, Munich, Germany Fernando Botero, Hanover Gallery, London, UK
1969 Fernando Botero, Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, NY Botero: Peintures, pastels, fusains, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France Inflated Images, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1968 Botero, Galería Juana Mordó, Madrid, Spain Botero, Galerie Buchholz, Munich, Germany
1966 Fernando Botero, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany; Traveled to: Galerie Buchholz, Munich, Germany, Galerie Brusberg, Hanover, Germany Fernando Botero: Recent Works, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
1965 Botero: Recent Works, Zora Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1964 Cordoba Bienale, Argentina Fernando Botero: Bosquejos realidades, Galería Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia Fernando Botero: Obras recientes, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
1962 7 Contemporary Painters, Museum of Modern Art, Bogota Botero, The Contemporaries, New York, NY
1961 Botero, Galería de Arte El Callejón, Bogotá, Colombia
1960 Botero, Gres Gallery, Washington, DC
1959 Botero: Obras recientes, Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia, Sala Gregorio Vásquez, Bogotá, Colombia
1958 Fernando Botero: Recent Oils, Watercolors, Drawings, Gres Gallery, Washington, DC
1957 Pan American Union, Washington, DC
1955 Biblioteca Nacional, Bogota, Colombia
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